Who said, “”A little water clears us of this deed. / How easy is it then”? | Lady Macbeth |
Macbeth is alone and contemplating whether he should kill the king or not, he makes a long speech revealing this. This speech revealing his internal conflict and ending in resolution is known as what | Soliloquy |
What meter does Lady Macbeth speak in when she is sleepwalking in Act 5 Scene 1? | Prose |
What meter does Lady Macbeth speak in normally? | Iambic Pentameter |
Who said “thou list, thou shag-haired villain!”? | Macduff’s son |
When Macbeth kills the king and takes his spot, he is disrupting the order and rank of the universe known as what? | Chain of Being (Order of the Universe) |
What is a literary device to describe a situation by referencing a literary or historic event or person? | Allusion |
What is the symbol used for evil throughout the play? | Darkness |
The weird sisters speak in what meter? | Trochaic Tetrameter |
Who said “But ’tis strange. / And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / the instruments of darkness tell us truths, / win us with honest trifles, to betray ‘s / in deepest consequence”? | Banquo |
Masks are what type of literary device seen throughout the play? | Motif |
Macbeth reached for the crown in ways that disrupted the universe, his fatal flaw is what? | Ambition |
Known for talking in paradoxes and contradictions, who said “Lesser than Macbeth, yet greater. Not so happy, yet much happier”? | Weird Sister |
What is a brief remark made by a character only meant to be hear by the audience or one other character? | Aside |
Who said “No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive / Our bosom interest. Go, pronounce his present death / and with his former title greet Macbeth”? | Duncan |
When Lady Macbeth says, “Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!” this is an example of what motif seen throughout the play? | Blood |
Before this character goes to his final battle, he expresses disappointment that he will not find love, honor or friendship. | Macbeth |
“This castle hath a pleasant seat” – King Duncan (1.6) is an example of what literary device? | Irony |
Who said “for the poor wren,/ the most diminutive of birds, will fight,/ Her young ones in her nest, against the owl”? | Lady Macduff |
Literary term for mood established by events, places, or situations | Atmosphere |
Macbeth’s conflict over killing the king, which ends in his defeat and suffering, makes this what type of drama? | Tragedy |
“Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief/ Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart. Enrage it.” This was said to whom? | Macduff |
“Hover through the fog and filthy air” is an example of what literary device? | Alliteration |
Who is the son of the previous king Duncan? | Malcolm |
A literary device used in order to give audience a clue about what is to come is what? | Foreshadowing |
What motif symbolizes guilt, lifeline, and honor? | Blood |
Who said, “Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief/ Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart. Enrage it”? | Malcolm |
References and symbols to manliness seen throughout the play is what type of literary device? | Motif |
The porter, a commoner, speaks in what meter? | Prose |
Who said, “By the pricking of my thumbs,/ Something wicked this way comes”? | Weird Sisters |
What is the literary device describes a situation where the audience knows information at least one character on strange does not? | Irony |
Who prompted the killing of the king? | Lady Macbeth |
To prove his loyalty to Scotland, Malcolm tricks whom? | Macduff |
Darkness when it should be light, a falcon killed by an owl, and tame horses becoming wild are all examples of evidence that there was a break or disruption in what? | Chain of Being (Order of the Universe) |
Who is kind to Macbeth as a guest in his home? | Duncan |
Who said “The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be / Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see”? | Macbeth |
Who’s sons do the weird sisters predict will become king? | Banquo |
“The raven himself is hoarseThat croaks the fatal entrance of DuncanUnder my battlements. Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullOf direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.Stop up the access and passage to remorse,That no compunctious visitings of natureShake my fell purpose, nor keep peace betweenThe effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers,Wherever in your sightless substancesYou wait on nature’s mischief. Come, thick night,And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the darkTo cry “Hold, hold!” This, spoken by Lady Macbeth, is an example of what? | Soliloquy |
Macbeth Bingo
January 5, 2020